It's a blow pragmatically: Many people now won't be able to get a PS2 mod as easily, and many will be reluctant to have such a mod made if it's illegal.
The result is that fewer people will play pirated PS2 games. While I think the infringement of rights is a terrible idea, you can't argue that there will be a result.
Maybe if they didn't spend R&D time and money on useless features, their products would be more affordable.
Adobe's aim (if they're sensible) is to price Photoshop at the point which will create the most profit. Period. Development costs are irrelevant to this.
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1. The price of a Celeron 500 and motherboard is about $160 (see http://www.pricewatch.com). For $350, you can get an Athlon 700 and motherboard, which for most applications will run nearly twice as fast. This difference isn't much considering the cost of the rest of the PC. If you are buying a $160 chip and board, you aren't buying entry-level; you are buying junk. Sure the most of the current generation of software doesn't need this kind of performance, but you can bet the next generation of apps running on Windows Millenium will hog it right up. Already you need more than a Celeron to get really good performance out of games like Ulitma 9 and Quake 3.
2. AMD is phasing out the K6-2 for the desktop market, and the mobile market will soon follow. They will soon introduce a mobile socket version of the Athlon. Intel is also moving ahead quickly with its SpeedStep PIII chips. Consider that in the beginning of 2001, the standard for computing will be chips well in excess of 1GHZ, and it would be silly to buy something in a few months that lags behind today's PIII 500 (and likely fares much worse against the Athlon in floating point operations.)
>At 700Mhz the TM5400's performance is slightly >under that of a 500Mhz PIII This isn't going to be anywhere near good enough. The entry level for a new PC *right now* is a 700 megahurtz processor. By the time Crusoe is being sold, you will be able to get a socket version of the Athlon with on-die level 2 cache which will *totally* smoke this thing, and likely won't be much more expensive. Plus Willamette and SledgeHammer will be just around the corner. The power consumption had better be *sweet*, or else Crusoe will never get off the ground because of its woeful lack of performance.
Just because you can write a big number as a sum of lots and lots of primes, doesn't mean you can't do so with less. For example, if a+6=i+j+k+l+m+n, and i+j+k is also prime, then a+6 can be written as the sum of 4 primes.
If n = a + b, and a or b is 3, then in the next step: n+2 = a+1 + b+1 you can only decompose a+1 or b+1 into the sum of two 2's. So your infinite ascent has to end somewhere, presumably always before 300,000.
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It's a blow pragmatically: Many people now won't be able to get a PS2 mod as easily, and many will be reluctant to have such a mod made if it's illegal.
The result is that fewer people will play pirated PS2 games. While I think the infringement of rights is a terrible idea, you can't argue that there will be a result.
Note the circular feature, a possible impact crater, in the northern hemisphere.
That's no impact crater, they've found a Death Star!
Maybe if they didn't spend R&D time and money on useless features, their products would be more affordable.
Adobe's aim (if they're sensible) is to price Photoshop at the point which will create the most profit. Period. Development costs are irrelevant to this.
Now you can eat all you want and lose weight while lowering your energy bill.
and why should they? NYT spent real $$$ to develop that content, and are under no obligation to give it away.
Fair enough, but as a site which provides free articles, I think Slashdot should stop linking to NYT "strings-attached" content.
2. AMD is phasing out the K6-2 for the desktop market, and the mobile market will soon follow. They will soon introduce a mobile socket version of the Athlon. Intel is also moving ahead quickly with its SpeedStep PIII chips. Consider that in the beginning of 2001, the standard for computing will be chips well in excess of 1GHZ, and it would be silly to buy something in a few months that lags behind today's PIII 500 (and likely fares much worse against the Athlon in floating point operations.)
>At 700Mhz the TM5400's performance is slightly >under that of a 500Mhz PIII This isn't going to be anywhere near good enough. The entry level for a new PC *right now* is a 700 megahurtz processor. By the time Crusoe is being sold, you will be able to get a socket version of the Athlon with on-die level 2 cache which will *totally* smoke this thing, and likely won't be much more expensive. Plus Willamette and SledgeHammer will be just around the corner. The power consumption had better be *sweet*, or else Crusoe will never get off the ground because of its woeful lack of performance.
Just because you can write a big number as a sum of lots and lots of primes, doesn't mean you can't do so with less. For example, if a+6=i+j+k+l+m+n, and i+j+k is also prime, then a+6 can be written as the sum of 4 primes.
If n = a + b, and a or b is 3, then in the next step: n+2 = a+1 + b+1 you can only decompose a+1 or b+1 into the sum of two 2's. So your infinite ascent has to end somewhere, presumably always before 300,000.